How Are Pluto and Goofy Both Dogs? 

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You are right, but you got it backwards. Characters wearing gloves is a neat shortcut for animators to hide their clearly human-like hands. It is a common solution for anthropomorphic animal characters. If you'd think how their actual hands might look like, you'd start experiencing an uncanny valley effect really quickly.

no its slavery

Segregation 💀

Wait so why doesn't Donald's species wear gloves

why do so many people have this profile pic?

Would you prefer humans be pets? Lol

JUST DO IT!!!

@@RowDy2Times sometimes they are…

@@eoincampbell1584 bots

I've never seen fruitvale station, but I was walking through the inner city once when a stray dog charged me, I kicked it and it went on its way and then got hit by a speeding driver. I remember reacting in a similar manner. I picked up the bleeding corpse out of the street and realized there wasn't anywhere I could take it, so I walked down the street carrying a dead dog until I found a vacant lot to drop it.

I think that's the fun thing about these videos. He only touches on topics and encourages us to look at media with a new perspective and apply what we learned.

reminds me of a video essay I watched a while ago about the philosophical meaning behind pepe the frog meme, a topic so mundane and yet an analysis so deep. If a I find it again, I'll update this

That's how it works in Animal Crossing anyways.

@@vashsunglasses This video wasn't based on a scientific or evolutionary perspective though. It's based on a social one. Why did the author choose to make both characters dogs? What do they represent?

You can also go another direction, like Bojack Horseman where there are no actual animals, so certain chickens are purposely given lobotomies and euthanized to provide protein for everyone else.

@@ellie8272 dogs are easier to animate than humans, that's why

@@diskoebalo Okay but so are like, cats and stuff. Authors don't just make decisions arbitrarily, and it's fun to analyse what goes into designing a character. Oversimplifying things doesn't help anyone

Yes exactly

Don't, lots of people get that impression because of how he's paired with Clarabelle. A quiz my siblings competed in when I was a kid even had the "Goofy's species?" question and put cow as the answer. Don't know who the quiz's fact checker was but I guess the internet wasn't as reliable back then.

I never for one minute bought that crap about Goofy being a cow. You could look at his character and tell he was a dog. Doing a comparison with Clarabelle, who actually is a cow, would be enough to tell you that he wasn't a cow. They looked completely different.

He is a cow

You were a really dumb child if you actually thought he was a cow 😂😂😂

There was nothing that we could do about it. Goofy was a made man, and Pluto wasn't. And we had to sit still and take it.

would mythical giant flying reptilian beasts act like dogs? maybe. you dont know :P

I haven't been around a lot of horses, but I do know that they don't act like dogs in real life!

then no humans should be allowed to live by that logic. At least dogs have a reason for being aggressive, what's people???

​@@joywolf83 Lol what "reason" does a non-sentient dog have according to you? Stop projecting human traits on animals.

@@joywolf83 Could you elaborate on both points? We see humans as more worth than other animals, so comparing them 1:1 doesn't make sense. Also I'd love to hear what "reason" you think pitbulls have to justify eating babies.

but he's still based on a dog, you're kinda missing the forest for the trees there.

does that make Micky a Mick and Donald a Don?

@@Brurgh XD No. They're a duck and a mouse. Goofs are just a separate species, you see them a lot in the old shorts. :-)

It's Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, but just Goofy. (George Geef does exist, but he usually didn't have the dog ears, suggesting he's a different guy.)

And mickey mouse isn't a mouse?

@@-Scrapper- Not completely, he's too big, talks and walks on hind legs.

@@-Scrapper- There's actually a very old video where Mickey Mouse was afraid of an actual mouse so yeah he probably isn't a mouse.

According to Bill Farmer (the current voice of Goofy and Pluto), Goofy is a canis goofus. And canis is Latin for dog. So BOOM!

I suppose it's for a similar reason that killing a child almost never feels justified in media: they are so innocent that you can't justify it by saying that they "deserved it"

Personally I think it makes sense. As human beings we understand the flaws of fellow humans, and as such we can accept that when a character dies on-screen, they either had it coming or at least understood the risks that lead to their death. Animals on the other hand exist in a far less complex state of being, and as such it always feels more emotionally impacting when we see an animal suffer or die with no ability to understand why it's happening to them (I guess the fact that it's harder to watch children die on-screen than it is to watch adults ties in to the same concept of innocence). Add to that the fact that dogs are among the most loyal and trusting of all animals and have been specifically bred to be our "best friends" for thousands of years, and it's not difficult to see why we are so attached to them and find it hard to maintain the same level of objectivity when seeing them die in a movie as we can with humans (I myself am fine with any amount of sickening gore on the screen in regards to a human, but I always skip over a scene where a dog dies, even if it's off-screen- say for example the scene in American Psycho where Bateman stabs the homeless guy's German Shepherd and you don't see it but hear it whimpering; I can't watch that, and yet The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is one of my favourite movies). It may be counter-productive in regards to the survival of our own species and all that, but personally I detest (or at least am ambivalent towards) the vast majority of human beings but love all dogs, and I've encountered a lot of people who feel the same way.

naw it's just humans are horrible and rarely have a legitimate excuse for aggression. dogs that are aggressive, you still understand because you know they're either sick or protecting something

@@oliverholmes-gunning5372 I get that thinking, but you are ultimately saying human life is fundamentally less valuable than an animal's. It's a risky message, not gonna slippery slope, but still

@@joywolf83 I get the idea, but it's still a statement of the value of human life being less than a dog's. I'm not saying dog killing should be in all these games, but maybe in something like a game about death and killing it can be used to make you ask yourself if you are a monster. It's a sanitation issue for me, and a devaluation of human life.

Is that Shia LaBeouf?

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And when Clarabelle...exists.

Clarabelle has also dated Horace Horsecollar, but that doesn't make her a horse.

If monkeys evolved, why didn't all of them

New one in a week or two!

@@NowYouSeeIt omg, you actually saw my comment on an old video! And replied! I look forward to it, I’m sure you have a busy life. Your channel is one of my favorite on movies and Hollywood.

Don't forget it's a love triangle! Goofy, Clarabelle, and Horace Horsecollar.

Kicking the dog is a very common trope in fiction. It's designed to show someone as pure evil by hurting something harmless that we also love very much

I wish Jojo fans would stop trying to shove Jojo into everything. It’s so goddamn annoying.

🤣🤣🤣 seriously it’s not that deep

it's on youtube if you search "parquet courts goofy vs pluto"

@@colten6465 it wasn't like two years ago damn thanks king 👑

or maybe no evolution occurred because i dunno what disneys views on religion are. . . they might be full of creationists for all i know, or maybe the artists who draw them are the Gods